The best thing about A Nightmare on Elm Street is the font in the opening titles. It’s something sans serif and it’s slightly off and it looks good. To be fair to the movie’s reputation, I did jump twice, both times at the end; maybe because it was waking me up. As opposed to encouraging […]
Entries Tagged as 'Wes Craven'
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Johnny Depp· New Line Cinema· Wes Craven· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Scream 2 (1997, Wes Craven)
October 7th, 2007 · No Comments
This year (2007), I saw more summer movies than I have in at least five years. I avoid big Hollywood franchises (the modern ones, the revitalization attempts… it’s fifty-fifty), so I really don’t know how bad the acting is in most of those films–from what I saw this summer, it’s probably atrocious. But there’s a […]
Tagged: Dimension Films· Kevin Williamson· Liev Schreiber· Luke Wilson· Neve Campbell· Wes Craven· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Red Eye (2005, Wes Craven)
June 21st, 2007 · No Comments
The saddest thing about Red Eye is Wes Craven. The film opens with an action movie build-up montage, which he handles fine (for what it is), moves into an Airport movie, which he handles fine, turns into an actor-based thriller, which he handles fine. What doesn’t he handle fine? What does he handle so poorly […]
Tagged: Brian Cox· Carl Ellsworth· Cillian Murphy· Dan Foos· DreamWorks Pictures· Wes Craven· ★



